Trump’s New War Cabinet: An Even Greater Danger to Humanity
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All this comes on top of a year in which Donald Trump has made clear his determination to shred existing legal, political, and international norms.
Politics
Vietnam’s Boom Found Backfiring on Women
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A month after a booming Vietnam joined the World Trade Organization, a U.N. committee flags violations of women’s rights, especially in rural areas. Democracy activists plan to broadcast the findings in underground media and lobby Vietnam’s trade partners
Arts & Culture
Stories from Three Reporters Who Covered Vietnam
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Women’s eNews presents three excerpts from “War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam.” The tales inspire sadness, outrage and awe for the journalists who broke the gender barrier in war coverage.
Commentary
Bush’s Foreign Policy May Be All Guns, No Butter
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George Bush campaigned on a “humble foreign policy.” Now he is apparently transformed into Mucho-Macho Prez–risking the well-being of women and families for the dangerous goal of building a real-man’s empire.
Cambodia
Cambodia Prosecutes 10 Women for Being Abducted
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(WOMENSENEWS)–Earlier this month, 10 young Vietnamese women, who were allegedly smuggled into Cambodia to be sex slaves, were convicted of illegal immigration and deported back to Vietnam, according to the Chicago Tribune.Although human rights advocates and the young women themselves said they were brought into the country against their will and sold into prostitution, a Cambodian judge sentenced them up to three months in jail and deportation. The young women, ranging in age from 12 to 18, had already spent a month in jail awaiting their trial. They were credited with time served and deported immediately without serving any more jail time.The women were rescued from a brothel in May by activists working against sex trafficking. Police later arrested the women at an abused women’s shelter because they had entered the country illegally, according to the Associated Press.The Cambodian government is not pursuing the person or persons involved in the forced prostitution of these young women nor are they offering any aid or services to these victims of the sex trade, press reports indicate.As many as 20,000 underage prostitutes are working in Cambodia, according to the United Nations. The U.S. State Department estimates that a large percentage of the approximately 100,000 sex workers in Cambodia are working against their will.